Young people spend ten times more time on screens than to read books … This observation, the fruit of an investigation (1) conducted by the National Book Center (CNL), continues to worry parents and teachers, authors and publishers. This is the fourth edition of the quarter -hour operation, which aims in particular to give a … Read more
Reading data in Mexico concerns experts, since in the last ten years, The reading population over 18 fell into 14 percentage points, from 84.2% in 2015 to 69.6% in 2024, According to official figures of the Module on Reading of the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI). In addition, according to the data extracted … Read more
► Establish the daily quarter of an hour Every morning, be completely silent, put a book in everyone’s hands and give everyone fifteen minutes of escape. When he attended this ritual for the first time, in a high school in Türkiye, the writer and filmmaker Olivier Delahaye was amazed. With director Ayse Bascavusoglu and Danièle … Read more
It’s impossible to escape it in this winter literary season. On the tables of all bookstores in France, this year we find, at the heads of the gondola, the latest books by Vanessa Springora, Leïla Slimani, Pierre Lemaître, Lola Lafon or Haruki Murakami, the Japanese author regularly nominated for the prize Nobel Prize in Literature. … Read more
Salomé Berlemont-Gilles is the young author of the tenth issue of Letter Zola (1),“new literary media” first published last January. Don’t look for it on newsstands, you won’t find it: you have to subscribe to receive, every month in your mailbox, this book-envelope to open with around fifty pages – the stories are now available … Read more
Depriving yourself of immediate pleasures to “reset” your brain is the attractive bet of “dopamine detox”, but behind this attractive concept hides a dubious simplification of neuroscience. Do you really have to cut yourself off from all screens to rekindle your life? If dopamine detox is so appealing, it is because it promises to address … Read more
There is a great disparity between the cultural outings of Ile-de-France residents, benefiting from a rich range of facilities, and those of the provincials. A study carried out by the regional directorate of INSEE and the regional directorate of cultural affairs (Drac), based on the Ministry of Culture’s survey on the practices of the French … Read more
In Châteauroux (Indre), the municipal media library has been experimenting with the Read with a Dog (LAC) system since the start of the school year in September. This educational method established by American researchers and already used elsewhere in Europe as well as in other municipalities, schools and colleges in France, is aimed at children … Read more
The Cross : For two years, you have been taking Bible courses at the Catholic Institute of Paris (ICP). Why and how did you end up in this course? Laure Adler: When I left France Inter last year, where I presented a daily show, when I was asked why I was leaving, I replied that … Read more